Thus says the LORD:
"Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house which you would build for me,
and what is the place of my rest?
All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things are mine,
says the LORD.
But this is the man to whom I will look,
he that is humble and contrite in spirit,
and trembles at my word.
"For as the new heavens and the new earth
which I will make
shall remain before me, says the LORD;
so shall your descendants and your name remain.
From new moon to new moon,
and from sabbath to sabbath,
all flesh shall come to worship before me,
says the LORD.
Isaiah 66:1–2, 22–23 (RSV)
Close your eyes for a moment, drift back to Sunday, and think of the moment when the Spirit touched your soul during worship. You may not always be aware that the Spirit is filling every worship with the Divine presence.
There is no such thing as a boring worship service. A worship service may be poorly planned. A worship service may be badly led. The pastor may not have worked hard enough on their sermon that Sunday. But no worship service is boring, for we encounter the living God in worship.
Jesus has promised that wherever two or three gather in His Name, He will be there. The Father longs to have us all gather before Him in worship. St. John's Revelation reminds us that our purpose and our joy are in worshiping God.
We may not always hear it as we are singing it, but we sing, 'Give us a foretaste of the feast to come.' Our worship is shared by angels and archangels, cherubim and seraphim, by all the Saints who have gone before us.